And a saunter through their villages will amply confirm such a surmise.

And then, out of the darkness of her heart, Lancelot's image rose before her stronger than all, tenderer than all; and as she remembered his magical faculty of anticipating all her thoughts, embodying for her all her vague surmises, he seemed to beckon her towards him.

I have not as yet heard a surmise as to the new Lord Privy Seal.

What is the other query?" "Why, my lord," said Peter, a little disappointed at finding his first surmise untrue, "that outlandish tongue your honor used" "Was Spanish," cried the earl.

He'd caught a surmise of the truth, too, I think, in New York, when he came back from France and brought me home.

First, you could verify or correct your surmise as to what the ological blood betokens.

It was very gratifying to us to find that we were treated by the Uzbeg chiefs in so friendly a manner, as we had some misgivings lest our being unprovided with any letters from influential men in C[=a]bul, might create unfavourable surmises amongst a half-savage and naturally suspicious race.

The absence of the three boys from tea and lock-up had already excited general surmise, and Montagu's appearance, jacketless and wet, at the door of the boarders' room, at once attracted a group round him.

Mr. Fitzmaurice had not returned, which favoured my surmises that he would find a river.

While the new passenger was preparing to come off in a yawl, those who awaited his movements had leisure to examine his appearance, and to form their different surmises concerning his character.

" "Ah, I heard something of you both when I was at Albany from one Jacobus Huysman, a stout and worthy burgher, who spoke well of you, and who hazarded a surmise that I might meet you somewhere in the neighborhood of the lakes.

What Thanet thought of it all, the little island kept secret, hiding its surmises in the thicket of her own archaic forests.

The disciples, he says, had no choice between hopelessness and "an heroic affirmation"; and he makes the bold surmise that "un homme pénétrant aurait pu annoncer dès le samedi que Jésus revivrait."

Thanks to Bertram's forethought and caution, he had succeeded in restoring Elise to her father's house, without her absence having been remarked, or having occasioned any surmise.

Examination proved this surmise to be correct.

Ominous noises in front of the Boche wire had raised apprehensive surmises in the breast of Brigade Headquarters.

It was with the relieved sense of having shaped a long surmise that I watched the Senora Romero make a poultice of it for my burned hand.

Annoyed as I was, I was glad that he had interrupted us, for his presence would effectually stop Mrs. Lester's surmises concerning his wife.

The two girls listened to Louise with expressions of mingled wonder and amusement while she confided to them her first suspicions that Captain Wegg had been murdered, and then the bits of information she had gathered to strengthen the surmise and assure her she was justified in her efforts to untangle the web of mystery.

He got the idea then that she might be the girl who had so mysteriously come in and sat beside him while Paula sang; and without any evidence whatever to support this surmise, it became a settled conviction.

Her health was so bad, however, that just before he started to New York to be inaugurated he rode to Fredericksburg, "and took a final leave of my mother, never expecting to see her more," a surmise that proved correct.

I would here venture a surmise, that the barn owl sleeps standing.

At best you have tided over a transitory need, or have verified a surmise.

"These are our principal factsto which we may add the surmise that he has recently purchased a second-hand Blickensderfer of the literary form or, at least, fitted with a literary typewheel.

There was a look of sad amaze that came on Ratsey's face when I said that; a look that woke in me an awful surmise.